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"In a discussion with the Debian Hurd porters it was decided that the Hurd port stays on FTPMaster until Wheezy is released. Should they have managed to get the port into a state that it is released together with all the others (probably as a technology preview), it is kept in the archive. Should they not manage this the port will be removed from the main archive and move fully to debian-ports.org."1
What is Debian GNU/Hurd ?
Debian GNU/Hurd is an operating system from Debian, but which uses GNU Hurd, which is a set of servers, running on top of the GNU Mach microkernel instead of the kernel named Linux (thus the name Debian GNU/Hurd). Some day, most applications will exist both in Debian GNU/Hurd and in Debian GNU/Linux.
Basic info
- Installation and testing:
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
Debian "Sid" debian-installer images available http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/.
- This is the prefered method of install.
Pre-build image files (*.img.*) at http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/
?Debian_GNU/Hurd_FAQ
TheHurd page. (Merge?)
IRC channel: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/irc.html
#hurd on irc.freenode.net
#debian-hurd on irc.debian.org
Goals for releasing in jessie
- buildd
- security
- DSA
- proper dhcp support in installed system
- use ifup/ifdown instead of translators entry?
packages in debian-ports (those marked with need to be integrated in the main archive):
- (hurd-any) cardmgr-gnumach
- wifi, can live without
- postpone
- (hurd-any) console-driver-xkb
- we should probably just integrate it in the hurd package
- See the concerns on the mailing list archive (bug-hurd, "XKB's keymaps for the Hurd console")
- can postpone
(hurd-any) cvsfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669647
eglibc, to remove
- emacs-defaults
- default to emacs24
- exim4
- issue with ipv6-enabled system
- gdb
- Add hardware watch support.
(hurd-any) gopherfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669648
(hurd-any) httpfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
hurd, to remove
- icon
- -k option issue fixed by exec_file_name patch in libc.
isc-dhcp
- Being Discussed directly with upstream, upstream patch available
- Maintainer wants patch really applied upstream before adding it to debian.
- patch applied upstream for newer version
libpciaccess, to remove
libpthread-stubs, to remove
libxcb, to remove
mlocate, to remove
- (hurd-any) netio
ITP: 669652
- ntp
- Ship ntpdate at least.
- (hurd-any) random-egd
- make it an alternative to Marcus' C implementation
- can live without
- can postpone
(hurd-any) smbfs-hurd, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669653
sysvinit, to remove
663009, fixed.
(hurd-any) tarfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669654
- (hurd-any) util-hurd
- (hurd-any) wireless-tools-gnumach
- just for wifi, can live without
- postpone
- x86info
- xorg
- (hurd-any) cardmgr-gnumach
- various packages in debian-ports, but not a priority
- Be able to install at least the base from official mirror (now just missing dhcp)
Integrate DDE to get nowadays' network support.
- Get Xorg + gnome/kde/xfce (xfce should work, kde is missing working dbus (due to local socket auth and bugs in select() cornercases)) + some webbrowser working (iceweasel 9 works, though not https).
Fix ext2fs uncleanness at reboot http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.html
- Switch to plain sysv startup?
Enable console by default? (we now have proper kernel message relaying)
- fix "su" to root discrepancy (PATH does not include sbin etc.), apparently simply because shadow's su vs coreutils' su.
see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/6488
newer coreutils drops su (http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2013/07/msg00057.html), switch to util-linux' su once util-linux is updated
No more binaries built in "use debian-ports" era (http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2013/07/msg00014.html):
- Good archive coverage.
- We're at 76%, kfreebsd was at 85% when it entered wheezy. Although probably not reachable, we can probably do better with
- mono
- fpc
- nodejs
- We're at 76%, kfreebsd was at 85% when it entered wheezy. Although probably not reachable, we can probably do better with
Fix at least the required, important and standard packages from http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/out_of_date.txt
Try to fix the top of http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/graph-total-top.txt
Goals for later
- IPv6 support in d-i (after it is settled for linux).
upgrade libfuse compatibility to >= 2.6.5, with fuse_lowlevel.h, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/libfuse.html
- add cpuid-based autoloading of libc0.3-i686
Developer info
- DD-accessible machines running GNU/Hurd:
hurd-i386: see ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386
Patches that are only needed for Debian (either because they're fixed-upstream, or because of their Debian-specific nature)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00015.html - Debian pushes development of the Hurd port (1)